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Contributions of $10K Or More to Defeat Measure 97 As of 10.1.2016 Contributions of $10k or more to Defeat Measure 97 as of 10.1.2016 Food, Beverage & Restaurants Cash & In-kind Sector Total Albertsons-Safeway (Portland Division) $ 500,000 Services Group of America, Inc. $ 202,320 Kroger/Fred Meyer $ 125,000 Grocery Outlet $ 100,000 Tillamook Dairy Co-Op $ 100,000 Wilco $ 100,000 Sysco Corporation $ 81,490 Mid Columbia Producers, Inc. $ 75,000 Cargill, Inc. $ 61,000 Coastal Farm & Home Supply LLC $ 50,000 Columbia Distributing $ 50,000 Core-Mark International Inc. $ 50,000 McLane Company, Inc. $ 50,000 Harry and David $ 35,000 Anheuser-Busch $ 30,000 DPI Specialty Foods $ 25,000 General Mills Inc. $ 25,000 Morrow County Grain Growers, Inc. $ 25,000 NORPAC Foods Inc. $ 25,000 Oregon Freeze Dry $ 25,000 Owner-Operators of Oregon PAC (4507) $ 25,000 US Bakery $ 25,000 Willamette Beverage Co. $ 25,000 ORLAPAC (193) $ 20,000 Oregon Farm Bureau Federation $ 18,000 Shari's Management Corporation $ 15,000 Packaging Corporation of America $ 12,000 ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston $ 10,000 Darigold Inc. $ 10,000 Ever Fresh Fruit Company $ 10,000 Oregon Neighborhood Store Association Political Action Committee $ 10,000 Owens Illinois Inc. $ 10,000 Pacific Seafood Group Employee PAC $ 10,000 Plaid Pantries, Inc. $ 10,000 Umpqua Dairy Products Co. $ 10,000 $1,954,810 Insurance & Health Care Cambia $ 400,000 Standard Insurance $ 398,450 State Farm Mutual Ins. Auto Ins. Co. $ 212,337 Farmers Insurance $ 150,000 Progressive Casualty Insurance Company $ 72,000 Metlife $ 60,000 George Kenneth Austin Jr. Trust $ 50,000 Healthcare Distribution Alliance $ 50,000 Johnson & Johnson $ 50,000 Liberty Mutual Insurance Company $ 50,000 American Family Insurance Group $ 36,000 Insurance & Health Care, continued CardinalHealth $ 25,000 Caremark RX Inc. $ 25,000 CNA Insurance $ 24,000 Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. $ 20,000 Property Casualty Insurers Association of America $ 20,000 National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Inc. $ 15,000 Oregon Mutual Insurance Co. $ 13,000 McKesson Corporation $ 10,000 Mutual of Enumclaw $ 10,000 OAHHS $ 10,000 Pacific Life Insurance Company $ 10,000 Transamerica Life Insurance Company $ 10,000 US Oncology Corporate, Inc. $ 10,000 $ 1,730,787 Forestry, Construction & Real Estate Weyerhaeuser Company $ 300,000 International Paper $ 205,000 Hoffman Construction Company $ 100,000 Boise Cascade Company $ 87,500 Hampton Affiliates $ 75,000 Knife River Corporation – Northwest $ 55,000 On Electric Group, Inc. $ 55,000 Collins Pine Company $ 50,000 Freres Timber, Inc. $ 50,000 Murphy Company $ 50,000 Roseburg $ 50,000 AGC Committee for Action (4) $ 35,000 Jeld-Wen Employee PAC $ 35,000 Seneca Jones Timber Company, LLC $ 30,000 CalPortland $ 25,000 Columbia Forest Products (Greensboro, NC) $ 25,000 Melvin Mark Companies $ 25,000 Oldcastle Materials $ 25,000 Schnitzer Steel $ 25,000 South Coast Lumber Co. $ 25,000 Starfire Lumber $ 25,000 Wildish Land Co $ 25,000 Lone Rock Timber Management Co. $ 22,500 Timber Products Company $ 20,000 Ochoco Lumber $ 15,000 Forest City Trading Group, LLC $ 12,500 Harder Mechanical Contractors, Inc. $ 10,000 Harsch Investment Properties $ 10,000 Oregon Assoc. of Realtors $ 10,000 Stimson Lumber Company $ 10,000 Tree Top, Inc. $ 10,000 $ 1,497,500 Cars, Heavy Machinery & Freight Lithia Motors, Inc. $ 505,000 Automobile Dealers Assoc of Portland $ 250,000 Oregon Automobile Dealers Association $ 170,000 Papé Group $ 142,416 Cars, Heavy Machinery & Freight, continued The Greenbrier Companies $ 100,000 SFP-B Limited Partnership (Les Schwab) $ 40,000 Alliance of Auto Manufacturers $ 25,000 BNSF Railway Company $ 25,000 General Motors $ 25,000 TEC Equipment, Inc. $ 25,000 Lanphere Enterprises, Inc. $ 20,000 UPS $ 20,000 Dick's Auto Group $ 15,000 Beaverton Toyota $ 10,000 Capitol Chevrolet Cadillac & Toyota Scion Inc. $ 10,000 Central Oregon Trucking $ 10,000 Herzog Meier Auto Center $ 10,000 Suburban Chevrolet & Ford, Inc. $ 10,000 Caterpillar Inc. $ 10,000 Peterson Machinery $ 10,000 Thomas H. Ireland Incorporated $ 10,000 Toyota of Gladstone $ 10,000 Union Pacific Railroad Company $ 10,000 $ 1,462,416 Utilities & Energy PacifiCorp, Pacific Power & PAC $ 296,334 Equilon Enterprises LLC (Shell) $ 250,000 PGE $ 250,000 Phillips 66 $ 217,000 BP America Inc. $ 169,000 Natural Gas Political Action Committee (102) $ 120,000 NW Natural $ 80,000 Avangrid Renewables LLC $ 30,000 Western States Petroeum Assoc. $ 20,000 $ 1,432,334 Retail & Wholesale Costco Wholesale Corporation $ 500,000 The P&G Company $ 100,000 Ace Hardware $ 75,000 Macy's $ 50,000 Nike Inc. $ 50,000 Walmart Stores, Inc. $ 50,000 Michael M Powell $ 25,000 Ross Dress For Less, Inc. $ 25,000 Target $ 25,000 Columbia Sportswear $ 25,000 Nordstrom $ 20,000 Bi-Mart $ 15,000 Gap Inc. $ 10,000 Leupold & Stevens, Inc. $ 10,000 Staples, Inc. $ 10,000 $ 990,000 Banking and Finance Membrane Holdings LLC $ 200,000 U.S. Bank - Oregon $ 125,000 Synergy by Association $ 100,000 Umpqua Bank $ 60,000 Citigroup Washington, Inc. $ 50,000 Wells Fargo $ 50,000 Principal Financial Group $ 40,000 Bank of the Cascades $ 30,000 Pacific Continental Bank $ 25,000 Oregon Bankers Assoc. $ 22,949 Avista Utilities $ 10,000 Bank of Eastern Oregon $ 10,000 Johnson Holding, Inc. $ 10,000 Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. $ 10,000 $ 742,949 Telecom & Technology Comcast Cable $ 315,000 Amazon.com $ 75,000 Century Link $ 70,000 Oregon Cable Telecommunications Assoc. $ 50,000 Act-On Software, Inc. $ 25,000 BendBroadband $ 20,000 Navex Global $ 20,000 Charter Communications $ 10,000 Consumer Cellular $ 10,000 Oregon Association of Broadcasters Political Action Committee $ 10,000 Sure ID, Inc. $ 10,000 $ 615,000 Business and Legal Oregon Business Council $ 111,143 PBA, Portland Business Alliance & PAC $ 27,807 Pacificor, LLC $ 25,000 Stoel Rives LLP $ 25,000 Grow Oregon $ 23,345 Perkins & Co. $ 17,400 $ 229,695 Waste & Recycling Waste Connections, Inc. $ 50,000 Oregon Refuse & Recycling Association $ 25,000 Waste Management $ 25,000 Republic Services, Inc. $ 10,000 $ 110,000 Other Peregrine Sports LLC $ 95,000 Allegheny Technologies Incorporated $ 25,000 $ 120,000 Total Donations of $10,000 or more $10,885,491 Total Donations of $10,000 or more + Smaller Donations = $11,316,000 cash and in-kind .
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